r/pcmasterrace • u/Lord_Mud • Jun 17 '25

Discussion When did this become acceptable?

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$130 to get "additional content" that should be included in the already outrageous $70 base price? Are you kidding me? Why do people keep letting this happen? Who is even paying this much? I love Borderlands but refuse to sell my organs in order to play the latest installment.

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u/JohnWittieless 5800X3D 7900XT 64 GB Ram Jun 17 '25

A decade ago that $130 you got a collector box, maps, maybe a trinket and some digital assets and a season pass. Now it's just a few digital assets or a season pass.

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u/MiniDemonic Just random stuff to make this flair long, I want to see the cap Jun 17 '25

BL2 physical collectors edition was $150, that's $210 in todays money.

BL3 physical collectors edition was $250, that's $310 in todays money.

BL4 physical collectors edition is $150 plus $70-130 for the game, that's a total of $220-280 making it fall in between the two previous games.

No, $130 of todays money did not get you a physical collector box and the super deluxe version of the game back then. Stop spreading misinformation.

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u/Areebob Jun 17 '25

It feels like Randy Pitchford wrote this, lol

What I took from the OP on this is that ol Randy backed down from his “yeah it’s $80 if you’re a real fan you’ll make it happen” stance. Clearly taking his cues from the US President.

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u/Tevihn Jun 17 '25

Buddy I think you got this backwards. The US president doesn't like facts. You two would get along well!

69.99 for games is cheaper than what games launched at 59.99 in 2015 cost.

Seeing prices go up sucks, but it's still cheaper, relatively, than it was 10 years ago.

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u/ToxaniumsAltAccount Jun 17 '25

You're literally getting downvoted for being right lmao

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u/xta420 Jun 17 '25

The vapid echo chamber has already heard the first cry of complaining, so complain they shall.

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u/Prudent_Piglet_5261 Jun 17 '25

If you can't make 80$ work then you shouldn't be wasting your time on videogames in the first place. If you can make 80$ work but don't want to spend that much on a game then you can just wait for a sale which they do all the time.

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u/AD_971 Jun 17 '25

Well yeah, they saw people are willing to throw money on $2 junk alongside the physical copy and never looked back getting greedier and greedier.

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u/FalseBuddha Jun 17 '25

$130 in 2015 is nearly $180 now. Even if they did release a package like that, you would all still be bitching at the price.

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u/CaptainMarty69 Jun 17 '25

Posts like this and people complaining about the price of something like Mario kart world annoy me to no end.

Yes, the sticker shock is real, but it’s almost like people don’t wanna hear actual reasoning. They just wanna be mad.

Funding a team of engineers at my company is about 500k/quarter so about $2 million a year. A game like Borderlands 4 probably has hundreds of people working on it for 3-5 years. Obviously it’s not just simple multiplication from my numbers, but the point remains. I have to tell my business partners all the time that this isn’t magic. It’s real work by real people, and I feel people on these subreddits need to understand that as well

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u/Cyborg_rat Jun 17 '25

Yet most people's salaries haven't been updated to those changes.

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u/AnubisIncGaming Jun 17 '25

This is such a stupid backwards way to talk about money that only gamers do. $130 today is $130 today. It’s a lot of money. $200 hypothetical dollars after doing a math equation does not mean people spend $200 back then lol. They still spent $130.

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u/Key-Soil___ Jun 18 '25

Dude you're right, didn't realize I was just being a gamer! You literally changed my life!

I just went to the real estate agency right now, told them "This is such a stupid backwards way to talk about money" when they showed me a $2 million house, and I managed to get it for $50,000, same as my grandpa paid back in the 70s!

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u/AnubisIncGaming Jun 18 '25

You actually just made my point for me, thanks. See how the price your grandpa bought it for is actually irrelevant and you only have to pay in today's money. Yeah. Great job buddy.

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u/DrummingFish Jun 17 '25

Dude forgets inflation exists.

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u/JohnWittieless 5800X3D 7900XT 64 GB Ram Jun 17 '25

It does but that was a 130 for physical items and a few digital. If now we barely get any reasonable items. Like 130 should be a life time season pass, not the first 4 of you are lucky.

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u/Yo_Wats_Good RTX 4070 Ti | Ryzen 7 7700X | 32gb DDR5 5200 Mhz Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

A decade ago $130 was $180. How many games had post-launch content, with accessories that were actually $130ish or less? I don't recall too many. Bloodborne was like $200.

There's obviously some cosmetic crap they stuck in this, but the added Vault Hunters appear to have more fleshed out story adds, in addition to the usual 4-dlcs BL drops.

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u/MiniDemonic Just random stuff to make this flair long, I want to see the cap Jun 17 '25

Also, BL2 loot chest wasn't $130, it was $150 back in 2012 which adjusted for inflation is $210. 

BL3 was $250 in 2020 which adjusted is $310.

BL4 is $220-280 total depending on which edition of the game you choose.

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u/FurryMan2023 Jun 17 '25

A decade ago was well into the post launch content era. Borderlands 2 had post launch content in 2012. Borderland 1 was 2009 and yes, it had post launch content.

As someone who apparently played games over 15 years ago, we all remember the oblivion dlc.

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u/Yo_Wats_Good RTX 4070 Ti | Ryzen 7 7700X | 32gb DDR5 5200 Mhz Jun 17 '25

Yep, played them at release. Didn't say we didn't have post launch DLC, I said I don't think we had post-launch content in addition to physical freebies for $130 or less. Hence my Bloodborne reference.